Douluo: What the Heck is a Scholar Cultivation System?
Chapter 3

Best Career Path for a Blue Silver Grass Soul Master

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Chen Ping's words came straight from the heart. After all, supports did not have much to do in team fights.

They just had to use their support skills at the right moment and avoid Sudden Death before using them. That was already enough for everyone else on the team.

But even with such simple requirements, how many supports could actually meet them?

They knew to run when danger arose. Since they knew they could not beat anyone, they never went looking for trouble. If forced into a corner, they could even step out to draw fire and buy recovery time for the team's heavy hitters.

What was that? That was a perfect support!

As the saying went, the best fighters achieved great victories without great fame. A support whose presence went unnoticed was a good support.

If Tang Xiaolong and Wang Xiaolong could truly master the Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track,

then, without claiming anything else, as long as their future teammates were not complete trash, before he got picked off by the enemy's Agility Attack System Soul Master, the enemy support would have long since been sent flying by their own Agility Attack System Soul Master.

The Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track was said to be a technique, but in Douluo Continent, it was a bona fide Self-Created Soul Skill!

Tang San had started with nothing but Blue Silver Grass whose bloodline had not awakened. Other than a Cultivation Speed equal to that of a top-tier Martial Soul, every other attribute was abysmal. How had he beaten Soul Masters of the same level senseless?

Was it not all thanks to the Tang Sect's unique arts he possessed?

Other Soul Masters truly had only three skills when they reached three rings. Tang San, meanwhile, had at least three Soul Skills, plus the Eight Spider Lances, Mystic Jade Hand, Controlling Crane Capturing Dragon, Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track, Hidden Weapon Compendium, Tang Sect Poison Manual, and a whole string of other usable "Self-Created Soul Skills."

Three skills against eight or nine skills from the other side—how was anyone supposed to fight that?

But this also showed from another angle just how useless Blue Silver Grass Martial Souls were for the Control System role.

Even though Tang San had so many more Soul Skills than Soul Masters of the same level, once he began facing opponents above Level Thirty-Five in Soul Fighting, he too realized how weak the Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul was.

It was only because Immortal Grade Herbs strengthened his Martial Soul once when he reached Level Forty, and then his Martial Soul directly evolved into the Blue Silver King at Level Fifty, that he skipped over the period when the Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul was at its weakest.

Otherwise, Tang San would even have faced the risk of being crushed by opponents of the same level.

It had to be said, the middle-aged man was tempted. He had once worked as a mercenary in the Soul Beast Forest, so he knew just how sought-after a reliable support was.

After a round of Soul Hunting, aside from the captain, the experienced support in the team often earned the most. No one could say they would never need that person someday.

Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track plus Blue Silver Grass support—the plan truly seemed quite enticing.

Especially during outdoor Soul Hunting, buffs such as percentage increases were not as important as they were in Soul Fighting.

An extra twenty or thirty percent damage or speed generally would not affect the overall situation.

But if something unexpected really happened, a support who could heal someone back up was practically a second parent.

The middle-aged man quickly realized another crucial question: what Soul Beast Soul Rings would a Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul need to absorb in order to switch to the Support System?

Over the past Ten Thousand Years, although the Tang Sect could be considered the sect with the deepest research into Blue Silver Grass Martial Souls, they had never considered the matter of Blue Silver Grass switching careers from the Control System.

Their research focused on improving the Innate Soul Power of Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul Masters and replicating Tang San's growth path from back then.

That was also why Wang Xiaolong's Innate Soul Power was so much higher than that of Blue Silver Grass Soul Masters from Ten Thousand Years ago—by a full two and a half levels of Innate Soul Power.

This was one of the Tang Sect's research results. They continuously had Blue Silver Grass Soul Masters with Innate Soul Power marry other Soul Masters with Soul Power rather than ordinary people.

Then they spent enormous sums to buy pills from the Sun Moon Empire that forcibly squeezed out one's potential to raise Soul Power Level, providing them free of charge to Tang Sect Soul Masters who had inherited Blue Silver Grass Martial Souls and possessed Innate Soul Power.

They raised the cultivation levels of these Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul Masters and repeated the cycle over and over.

In the end, after more than Ten Thousand Years of unremitting effort, the Tang Sect could now steadily cultivate Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul sect leaders at the Three-Ring Soul Elder level, or even the Four-Ring Soul Ancestor level.

As for how the wealth accumulated by the sect over so many years had been drained dry by this extravagant project generation after generation, causing the entire Tang Sect to scatter when the tree fell—

Don't ask too many questions about that. Just look at how today's Blue Silver Grass Soul Masters were no longer born with no Innate Soul Power or merely Level One Soul Power like they had been Ten Thousand Years ago. Was that not a huge improvement?

Seeing the conflicted look on the middle-aged man's face, Chen Ping immediately understood what he was struggling with and said, "You can rest assured regarding Soul Beast recommendations."

"We are not the sort who take money and do nothing. One career-planning consultation for a Soul Master plus a Soul Hunting recommendation, and we guarantee the child can switch paths successfully and become a Support System Soul Master."

"As for hunting Soul Beasts, considering the difficulty of the hunt, I previously recommended the Gem Crystal Insect for the child. It is common, easy to catch, and barely aggressive. Just find a Soul Master who uses blunt weapons to give it a few strikes."

"Normally, this kind of Soul Beast produces Soul Rings with enhancement effects for gem-type Support System Soul Masters, or Soul Skills similar to Mirror Defense for Defense System Soul Masters."

"But if a Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul Master absorbs a Gem Crystal Insect Soul Ring, there is a high chance it will directly produce the Life Force Refraction Soul Skill."

"For future Soul Beast hunts, it will be enough to choose Soul Beasts with abundant life force. As long as the effect of the First Soul Skill, Life Force Refraction, keeps growing stronger, there will be no need to worry about being cast aside by teammates."

"R-Really?"

The middle-aged man's eyes lit up. The combinations of different Martial Souls and Soul Beasts were considered family knowledge in Douluo Continent and were exceedingly valuable.

Take the White Tiger Duke's lineage, for example. Their old four classics had been mocked for Ten Thousand Years for never changing: White Tiger Protective Barrier, White Tiger Fiery Light Wave, White Tiger Vajra Transformation, and White Tiger Demon God Transformation.

Which Soul Beasts needed to be hunted to reliably produce those four Soul Skills? That was all something people had to figure out through trial and error!

Even teachers at ordinary Soul Master Academies could only judge based on the types of Martial Soul and Soul Beast whether a Soul Beast suited a Soul Master. As for whether the resulting Soul Skill would suit them, that depended on luck.

Originally, he had thought the consultation fee Chen Ping charged was far too expensive. He had assumed Chen Ping was taking advantage of his child's young age and his wife's lack of decisiveness to swindle several Gold Soul Coins from their family.

But if what Chen Ping said was true, then those few Gold Soul Coins had been incredibly well spent!

Many things were worthless when left sitting around because they never encountered someone suitable for them. But once they met the right person, they became priceless treasures worth more than a thousand pieces of gold.

Perhaps Chen Ping's family possessed a record stating that Blue Silver Grass Soul Masters could produce the Life Force Refraction Soul Skill after absorbing a Gem Crystal Insect Soul Ring, a record that had been useless for centuries.

But when it truly found the right person, it was enough to change the fate of one person, or even an entire family.

For a moment, the middle-aged man's expression became somewhat restrained. He recalled the eye-catching advertising slogan on Chen Ping's bamboo basket.

Selling integrated Soul Skill data packages from outstanding Shrek graduates across the generations, along with training plans for outstanding Shrek graduates. Let your child win at the starting line.

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